Military Commission to Europe, in 1855 and 1856. Report of Major Alfred Mordecai of the ordnance department. Washington: George W. Bowman, 1861.
Report by American army officer Alfred Mordecai from the Crimean War period, submitted to the U.S. House of Representatives. With diagram plates.
The second part has a separate title page: Rifled Infantry Arms. A Brief Description of the Modern System of Small Arms as Adopted in Various European Armies, by J. Schon.
VII, 232 pp + 35 plates (14 folded), 29 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains (dark stains to some leaves). Binding with embossing of the Great Seal of the United States on both sides. Damage and tears to binding (spine torn and partly missing, back binding almost entirely detached). Library label.